I spent whole weekend on Dust 1947 European Masters tournament during “Festival en Jeux !” in Court-Saint-Étienne near to Brussels. That was second edition which took place during Festival en Jeux!. First one was two years ago. Like previous one this event was organized by Olivier Zamifirescu from Dust Studio and Olivier Joiris, the Boss of “Festival en Jeux!”. Of course during such an event couldn’t miss Paolo Parente. 🙂

16 players were decided to take the challenge. France, Poland, Sweden and Germany were represented. All type of armies were spotted. AXIS forces were represented by NDAK, Luftwaffe and Blutkreuz Korps. Steel Guards battalion, Red Guards forces and Red Army supported by choppers from SSU. USMC and Rangers lead Allies.

Each player played six battles. Four during first day and two during day two. We played on two maps prepared by Olivier. Maps were different but with comparable scenarios objectives. First map presented desert arena with ruins and old artefacts. Second was in city style with two traditional buildings, trees and obstacles made with ammo boxes. In both cases counter partners had to control objective points as many turns as it was possible. Players gained 1 victory points for each objective controlled at the end of turn. Winner had to collected more victory points at the end of battle.

We played hard but not dirty. Spirit of fair challenges was promised and delivered by players. We had lots of friendly discussions, beers (Thank you German team), shake hands and free talks about Dust, new models, future prospects and events.

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Marek & Sasha / Marek i Sasha

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The Winners, …and something more

Marek and Sasha gained the highest scores during elimination battles and they played final battle. They fought on huge desert map which looked like highway between the ancient artefacts, columns and old buildings. Scenario was simple “Kill’em All”. After two turns Sasha decided to give up. He said that due to Mr. Victory Sergeant his wasn’t able to take initiative. Marines, led by Marek, controlled battlefield and it was matter of time when he eliminates Sasha NDAK army. After Sasha decision Marek was proclaimed “Dust1947 European Master in 2016”.

Final places of tournament players:

Marek – Marines

Sascha – NDAK

Tomek – NDAK

Johannes – NDAK

Michal – Red Guards

Pawel – Allies

Philip – SSU

Mats – NDAK

Ludvig – Red Guards

Marcin – Luftwaffe

Dirk – Steel Guards

Carl – Rangers

Me – Red Guards

Olivier – Blutkreuz Korps

Jean Pierre – Rangers

Sacha – SSU

Dust Studio showed elite models and new sculptures which will appear in 2017. New version of Mercenaries mechanics, Winter Child and other new heroes. Silence, exclusive sniper hero for Mercenaries appeared also. We had ability to buy her in special European Dust Masters price. Plastic version should be available in 2017. A few resin version should be available in warfactory.pl, but you have to ask about it directly in shop. And finally we could buy new cards decks for AXIS, ALLIES and SSU. Mercenaries cards are added to SSU deck.

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It was very good tournament. I like idea of six battles. This way all players were involved both days. Moreover, at least theoretical, there wasn’t clear who would play in final battle almost till the end. Also point calculation system proposed by Olivier proved to be very easy and effective.

Last but not least. This year also our friends from befriended company www.thorminiatures.com . Colleagues came with fantastic stuff which perfectly fit to Dust1947 Universe. Thor Miniatures offers ruins and desert buildings, railroads, trains and roads, bags for dices, decals, trees and obstacles. All these elements have fitting dimensions to Dust1947 grid map. Buildings, railroads and roads element have even the dot in the center.

By the way Tomek (from ThorMiniatures) participated in painting contest and gathered almost all prizes for his Dust models.

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Thank you & see you soon

Many thanks to Olivier, Paolo and all players. That was pleasure to meet with you. Dust Vikings invited us to Sweden in April 2017. This could be great opportunity to meet again and in Warsaw mid of 2017 also.

Additionally I’d like to share with you my blog plans till end of 2016.